Flexin' my nerd muscle

[eiennihen]

Wow, I've never seen an intelligent lj survey before. Most of the time they just have trite questions like, "Have you ever had a crush on someone?" This one was actually interesting, though. I swiped it from cthulhu-chan's journal, BTW.

1. Do you consider yourself a modern person, a futurist, or stuck in the past?I would say modern. I have a love of the

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[cthulhu_chan]

Aw, you skipped the golden mean question! The person I swiped this quiz from has been patiently waiting for someone to even know what it is let alone have an opinion.

Though admittedly I didn't know either. But hey, you knew more of these things than I did.

[yoshie66]

8. What does the Golden Mean mean to you?

We just talked about this in my statistic class. The general consensus was that the folks who discovered the "Golden Mean" had no girlfriends and way too much time on their hands. I personally think math shouldn't be used to quantify the universe in the ways we have been using it. I prefer a little mystery in my life thank you very much. For everyone who has no clue what we're talking about, check this out:

If you start with the numbers 0 and 1, and make a list in which each new number is the sum of the previous two, you get a list like this

I hate math

[eiennihen]

Thanks for the explanation, Yoshie. :) I've heard of the Golden Mean before, but I honestly don't have a good enough understanding of math to have any kind of opinion on it. I can't imagine even taking a statistics class. *Shudders*

Re: I hate math

[yoshie66]

Statistics wasn't bad. Pretty much all we did was predict things with math. It's actually a little scary how easy it is to predict the outcome of even the most seemingly random of events... oh, and we rolled a ton of six-sided dice!

something fun

[pleasant_muse]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pleasant_muse/106481.html